Category: Climate change
Electricity Scarcity Meets Aluminum Tariffs, and American Citizens Pick Up the Bill
A collision between AI data centers being built—in the current AI bubble and with full throated support by the Trump Administration—and aluminum smelters for electricity is no longer theoretical. Utilities across the United States are facing binding constraints on generation and transmission. When presented with competing requests for hundreds of … [continued]
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What’s The Connection Between Soils & Climate Change?
Five years ago the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned that human pressures on the systems of land, soils, and fresh water were intensifying, just when they were being pushed to their productive limits. The majority of pressures were derived from agriculture, including the increase in … [continued]
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Why is Michigan a black squirrel hotspot?
Is Michigan a black squirrel hotspot? The experts say yes! On this episode, we look into why Michigan has such a big population of black squirrels—and why that population varies so much city to city.
Drones, Diesel, & Policy: Two Countries, Two Agricultural Futures
China’s rapid adoption of agricultural drones is one of the most interesting examples of technological divergence between two major food producers. The contrast is striking. Chinese pilots are now treating an amount of land with drones each year that is larger than the total farmland base, which means multiple drone … [continued]
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Big Loads, Small Loads, & A Changing Grid: A Better Path for Scope 2 Accounting?
An advocacy piece published by WattTime and REsurety was brought to my attention because it reflects the tension building around the proposed revisions to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Scope 2 accounting rules. These rules are not American regulations. They are global and voluntary, governed by the World Resources Institute and … [continued]
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